Cupid (?), c. 1640/1650

Not on View

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall without base: 38.6 x 25.1 x 24.4 cm (15 3/16 x 9 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
height with base: 50.2 cm (19 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.114

Artists / Makers

Lucas Faydherbe (sculptor) Flemish, 1617 - 1697

Image Use

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Provenance

(Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 11 November 1912 by Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[1] inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] Purchase date according to Widener card file in NGA curatorial records.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Bibliography

1942: Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 8, as Cupid by Donatello.

1943: Swarzenski, Georg. "Some Aspects of Italian Quattrocento Sculpture in the National Gallery." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th series, 24 (November 1943): 287 fig. 2, 288, as by Donatello.

1944: Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: fig. 14, as Laughing Cupid, by Donatello.

1948: Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 115, repro., as Cupid by Donatello.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 153, as by Donatello.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 136, repro., as by Donatello.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 83, repro.